Mika Yamamoto

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It has now
been an entire year since Al-Hurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian of
Palestinian origin, and freelancer Austin Tice, of the United States, went
missing in Syria. But the recent liberation of two freelance journalists held
for months gives us some reason to hope.

Syrian violence contributed to a sharp rise in
the number of journalists killed for their work in 2012, as did a series of
murders in Somalia. The dead include a record proportion of journalists who
worked online. A CPJ special report

Syrian leaders tried to impose a media blackout on the country's civil war. They failed. As CPJ's Dahlia El-Zein reports, foreign journalists responded by smuggling themselves into the country, while Syrians picked up cameras and uploaded videos online. They all did so at extreme risk. (4:13)

My colleagues and I were saddened to learn of the death of Mika
Yamamoto, a Japan Press video and photo journalist who was killed while covering
clashes in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. The moment was all the more poignant
because of the similarities with two other Japanese journalist fatalities: Kenji Nagai of APF News in
Burma in 2007 and Hiro
Muramoto of Reuters in Thailand in 2010. As with Yamamoto,
Nagai and Muramoto were photojournalists covering conflict between anti-government
elements and government troops in foreign countries.

New York, August 20, 2012--A Japanese reporter was killed amid
heavy fighting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo today, while two other journalists
were reported missing in the city, news reports said.